It’s been 5 years since his death in a rented mansion in California, and since he triggered such a global outpouring of grief. The news online spread so quickly that he caused crashes of websites and search engines.

TMZ and the LA Times suffered outages while Twitter and Wikipedia crashed. Google thought the input from millions of users searching for “Michael Jackson” meant it was under some sort of attack (DDoS). Meanwhile Jackson was still composing and singing new material.

The world had never seen anything like it, and haven’t since. Millions of fans are already tweeting and posting out remembrances on social media today. VH1 Music have even looped a video of his famous moonwalk.

His 1982 album Thriller became the best-selling album in history, winning thirteen Grammy Awards. Thirteen of his songs reach #1 on U.S. charts and since his death there have been three posthumous albums released.

Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

Michael (2010)

Xscape (2014)

Let’s face it, there will never be another King of Pop. Check out his website, you’d really believe that he’s still here with us.